This has been bothering me for a while now. Is the plural of manga just manga, like... you know, for sheep? (The plural of "sheep" is still "sheep".) Or is it mangas? Somehow, that sounds clumsy or wrong to me... Idk, this just totally confuses me. And I really want to say the right thing. God, I'm such a pedant.

Can people help me figure out what the right answer is, if by nothing else, then a majority vote? I just want to know what people generally think. Thanks!

Addendum: I apologize in advance if this kind of poll was posted before; I tried to search for it and couldn't find one, but that could also be because it's damn hard to boil this question down to keywords that aren't used everywhere. -_- Please lock this post and point me in the right direction if I have so erred!

manga is a japanese word noun so i don't think there's have a plural form for it 😀 some japanese nouns do though... idk i'm pretty ignorant 😛

Manga.

Our resident member Chueisha made a big deal about it years ago. 🤣 Although, it doesn't really matter, since plenty of words have been taken from another language and construed to fit its regional context. If you want to use Japanese grammar, then it's just "manga" (correct me if I'm wrong?) and then you "stay true" to the original language.

But when you apply English grammar to a Japanese word it becomes "mangas". There's no real right or wrong here, IMO. Although I prefer using "manga" when I refer to the plural form.

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Saying "Manga's" sounds kind of stupid, to me.

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Manga.
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But when you apply English grammar to a Japanese word it becomes "mangas". There's no real right or wrong here, IMO. Although I prefer using "manga" when I refer to the plural form.

That all depends on which rule of English grammar you apply, as noted in the original post (plural of "sheep" is..."sheep"...) 🤣

I stick with "manga" as the plural.

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Manga is a Japanese word so they don't add an s to make it plural. The plural form is just manga.

I would say "Manga" as well.

"Mangas" sounds odd to me.

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Manga.
...

But when you apply English grammar to a Japanese word it becomes "mangas". There's no real right or wrong here, IMO. Although I prefer using "manga" when I refer to the plural form.

That all depends on which rule of English grammar you apply, as noted in the original post (plural of "sheep" is..."sheep"...) 🤣

I stick with "manga" as the plural.

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Manga is both singular and plural. Mangas sounds like idiot English.

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As long as you don't write it like "manga's", I'm not going to complain.
(But the plural is manga, all right.)

i say manga but i have friends who say mangas doesn't rly matta 2 me

Not that it matters now since you got the answer...

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